Mathias Payer

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Joined department: Fall 2014

Mathias Payer is a security researcher and an assistant
professor in computer science at
Purdue university leading the
HexHive group.
His interests are related to system security, binary
exploitation, user-space software-based fault isolation, binary
translation/recompilation, and (application)
virtualization. His research focuses on protecting
applications even in the presence of vulnerabilities, with a focus
on memory corruption.

Before joining Purdue in 2014 he spent two years as PostDoc in
Dawn Song's
BitBlaze group
at
UC Berkeley.
He graduated from ETH Zurich with
a
Dr. sc. ETH in
2012. The topic of
his thesis is related to
low-level binary translation and security.
He analyzed different exploit techniques and wondered how we
can enforce integrity for a subset of data (e.g., code pointers).
All prototype implementations are open-source.
In 2014, he started the
b01lers Purdue
CTF team
.